I've needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is going to take you from me.Logan to Madeline
I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn't really mind--or not much, anyway. Whereas if anyone insulted a novel, a story, a poem that he loved, something visceral and volcanic occurred within him. He wasn't sure what this might mean--except perhaps that he had got life and art mixed up, back to front, upside down.
Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that is why he keeps on trying.
Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world.
The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
Kadang saat kita gak mampu melepaskan orang yang terlalu kita cintai, berarti kitalah yang harus pergi
What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry.
Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.
Mungkin kau harus berhenti memedulikan apa kata orang tentang dirimu.
Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.
We are all fools in love
Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.
There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.
He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly heroes of the penny dreadfuls and shilling novels never had these problems getting kissed.
...and the stuff you bring back from dreams is free.
A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.
and she did what nobody thought of doing .... she consulted Anne
It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language
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